Do Engage. Maintain an active presence in the digital world, including on Facebook and YouTube. It is easy to set up accounts on both. Facebook features "fan pages" for public organizations that anyone can join or "like." Think about new modes, too, like smartphone apps.

Do Update. Frequently. If you...

In this segment from the film "Who Cares About The Saints?", Rev. James Martin of America Magazine discusses the life of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order. The full DVD of "Who Cares About The Saints?" is available now from Loyola Productions.

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In this segment from the film "Who Cares About The Saints?", Rev. James Martin of America Magazine discusses the life of St. Peter and how his experiences may speak to our own today. The full DVD of "Who Cares About The Saints?" is available now from

In this segment from the film "Who Cares About The Saints?", Rev. James Martin of America Magazine discusses the life and legacy of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The full DVD of "Who Cares About The Saints?" is available now from Loyola Productions.

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Here's a confession: I was biased when I saw Terrence Malick's astonishing new film "The Tree of Life." Very biased.

For one thing, I am an enormous fan of (I'll use the word since it fits) the director's oeuvre. One of the very first things I read...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the beatification of John Paul II and talked not only about his deep faith and considerable personal holiness but also the consternation in some circles over the perceived rush of his canonization process.

There are many other people who I hope are soon...

What an honor to be with you all. And what a strange experience, too. As you heard, I am a proud Penn grad. As you didn't hear, during those four years, I spent way too much time at Smokey Joe's Pub (or Smoke's, as I hope it's still called). In...

As someone who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following 9/11 I rejoiced to hear that Osama Bin Laden's long reign of terror, which had dealt death, destruction and untold misery to millions across the world, had finally come to an end. As a Christian, though, I...

Orbis Books recently reissued 'This Our Exile: A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa', with a new introduction. The book tells the story of my two years working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. During...

For six months in 2004, I was invited to serve as "theological adviser" to a new production of an Off-Broadway play called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, written by the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The play put Judas Iscariot on trial for his...

In 2004 I was invited to serve as "theological adviser" to a production of a new Off-Broadway play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, written by the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. The playwright put Judas Iscariot on trial for his betrayal of Jesus. In 'A Jesuit Off-Broadway', just...

Palm Sunday raises at least two important spiritual questions for Christians: What does it mean to be like Jesus? And what does it mean to take up our crosses, just like he did?

First, you don't need to go looking for your cross. Life gives them to you. Whether it's...

Here's a joke: A priest is giving a homily based on Jesus's command to love your enemies.

"Now," he says, "I'll bet that many of us feel as if we have enemies in our lives," he says the congregation. "So raise your hands," he says, "if you have many...

The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a horrifying disaster that unfolded before our eyes on television and the Internet, not only wrenched the hearts of every compassionate person, but also raised for the believer an age-old question: Why do we suffer?

That immense question, or the "problem of...

How do we know that what we read in the Gospels is what Jesus really said?

Well, for believers, their tradition tells them so. Christians believe that the church is guided by the Holy Spirit, and so the writings that were chosen for inclusion into the "canon" of the...

What is the importance of Pope Benedict XVI's sweeping statements in the latest installment of his book series, Jesus of Nazareth, about the need not to hold the Jewish people responsible as a whole for the death of Jesus?

After all, the Second Vatican Council's...

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There are as many paths to God as there are individuals. This series looks at six of the most well-traveled paths for contemporary believers.

This final path to God crosses all the other ones at various points. People on the path of confusion run hot and cold...

Of Gods and Men is the greatest film I've ever seen on faith. It surpasses even some of my longtime favorite movies on the spiritual life, like Romero, Diary of a Country Priest, A Man for All Seasons and The Song of Bernadette. Perhaps only Franco Zeffirelli's multi-part series Jesus...

Irish Central reported today a dramatic scene in Dublin's St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, part of the Vatican's visitation (that is, investigation) by Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston and Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York of the troubled church in Ireland (Hat-tip to Dotcommonweal and Whispers):

In dramatic scenes,...